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Comment by Pedala

I agree, crappy rewards.The rep, gold and lore counts.

Comment by Kardas

Prety much best feral tank gloves as a reward. Exelent druid rewards for both feral and resto.

Comment by bl00mie

Tough call for a druid. The staff is nice, but probably replaceable, whereas the gloves are untouchable at for tanking. I can't imagine being able to turn down the gloves. Even the tier 5 set is only arguably better. Nordrassil has more strength and agility, but the same stamina and *way* less armor (393 vs 267 (2374 vs 1613 in thick-hide bear)). I think it's a must have for any druid who might need to off-tank any instance/raid fights in the future.

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Comment by decker12

I'm a feral / resto hybrid who occasionally tanks and I'm excited to get these gloves. However, the quest chain is incredibly long and difficult. While you're working on this quest, a nice in between and far more easily obtainable tanking gloves is at:

Comment by Sihmm

The process of attunement to the Black Temple begins in Shadowmoon Valley with a very long quest chain that requires trips to the Arcatraz, Serpentshrine Cavern, Mount Hyjal and finally the doorstep of the Black Temple itself. Even if you're not planning on raiding just yet, the chain does offer some nice blue rewards half way through. It starts differently depending on whether you're Aldor (A) or Scryer (S):

Here, you have to venture into the Arcatraz (which requires a Rogue with 350 lockpicking or somebody to open the door who's completed the Arcatraz Key chain, which requires trips to the Mechanar and the Botanica respectively) to the room just before the final boss. Sadly it's impossible to solo-stealth to. Finding Udalo leads to:

If you need any of the rewards from the last quest you will still earn 28.41 gold. If not you should take the staff and sell it, which will give you a total amount of 38.63 gold.

I havn't done this questchain yet, just looked it over to see how much gold and rep I could get from it. Will try to confirm it in the oncoming days.

Comment by ffffouad

The completion of the final chain of the quest has neat ending :D. "You see a glimpse of the future. You see Akama and Maiev fighting their way through to Black Temple. But you see a third shrouded figure, and that figure is you."

Comment by kwerky

i just love the warrior reward...

Comment by Halion1

does nobody know, how to actually get the medallion to Black temple?did this quest line today, but no medallion. And then i talked with a friend who told me that you have to kill a Boss in the Hyjal. And to get attuned to Hyjal, you need to be attuned to Serpentshiren Cavern and The Eye ? or?

Comment by ugoogolizer

Once you complete this questline/quest you will be able to talk to an NPC who resides in a cage behind Fathom-Lord Karathress in SSC. After killing Fathom-Lord the NPC will be freed and you will be able to pickup a Quest which will be to return to Akama and report some findings.

When you get to Akama you will notice he is having a conversation with "Illidan's Presence". Illidan orders Akama to have one of his Ashtongue venture into TK to kill A'Lar. Akama passes this duty on to you in the following quest(line):

It is at this point where you recieve the actual Medallion of Karabor which grants you access to the Black Temple, but the questline is not yet complete. The final quest awards The blessed Medallion of the Karabor which upon "use:"transports you to the entrance of the Black Temple but you need to kill Illidan to get it =)

Comment by Vexium

I believe this is also the attunement to the Black Temple quest, not sure, but I know that the Medallion of Karabor is needed to enter.

Comment by arthemas

Wastewalker Gloves are equal or better. Need to do Heroic Shattered Halls to get those, though.

Comment by Nina

Not that this matters that much but if youre doing the BT-preQ questline you probably wont ever use any of these rewards and the staff will most likely give you the most gold when sold to a vendor. 10 g 22s.

Comment by Caylie

Theese gloves are amezing for feral tanking druids.I've been unlucky with tier 4, but so far that's the only thing that I would replace it with. (Ofcourse with T5 etc if I had it.)

Go get it Tanking Druids!

Comment by brenthebli

I like the ending to this quest chain. It is cool that you are shown (even if you dont see it) a vision in where you are fighting side by side witth two ledgendary figures in the game. Plus the gear is verry good, but can be replaced by gear obtained from raids.

Comment by Thesteini

I was relieved to find out that this counts towards the Shadow of the Betrayer achievement. It was the last quest I needed for it.

Comment by Daavead

I completed this quest but it didn't show up in the WoWhead looter, although I know I must have since one cannot finish the attunement series without it. Perhaps it has something to do with the availability of the title and an older quest version was deleted outright.

Comment by Goodwinn

If you are trying to get Blessed Medallion of Karabor and forgot which step of the quest line you are on, you can use this macro to determine where you left off:

/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10551)print("1. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed Allegiance to the Aldor (Aldor)")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10552)print("1. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed Allegiance to the Scryers (Scryers)")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10568)print("2. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed Tablets of Baa'ri (Aldor)")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10683)print("2. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed Tablets of Baa'ri (Scryers)")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10571)print("3. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed Oronu the Elder (Aldor)")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10684)print("3. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed Oronu the Elder (Scryers)")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10574)print("4. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed The Ashtongue Corruptors (Aldor)")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10685)print("4. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed The Ashtongue Corruptors (Scryers)")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10575)print("5. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed The Warden's Cage (Aldor)")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10686)print("5. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed The Warden's Cage (Scryers)")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10622)print("6. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed Proof of Allegiance")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10628)print("7. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed Akama")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10705)print("8. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed Seer Udalo")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10706)print("9. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed A Mysterious Portent")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10707)print("10. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed The Ata'mal Terrace")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10708)print("11. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed Akama's Promise")/run print("12. Now go into Serpentshrine Cavern and kill Karathress then talk to Seer Olum (48,18).")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10944)print("13. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed The Secret Compromised")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10946)print("14. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed Ruse of the Ashtongue")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10947)print("15. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed An Artifact From the Past")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10948)print("16. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed The Hostage Soul")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10949)print("17. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed Entry Into the Black Temple")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10985)print("18. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed A Distraction for Akama (Aldor)")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(13429)print("18. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed A Distraction for Akama (Scryers)")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10958)print("19. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed Seek Out the Ashtongue")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10957)print("20. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed Redemption of the Ashtongue")/run local c = IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(10959)print("21. You have"..(c and "" or " not").." completed The Fall of the Betrayer")

Comment by Vlad

If you feel lost and unsure where you are in the chain, use the following copy-paste scripts:

The Aldor/run local y={568,571,574,575,622,628,705,706,707,708,944,946,947,948,949,985,958,957,959}print"The Aldor:"for i,q in ipairs(y)do q="10"..q print(i,"\124cffffff00\124Hquest:"..q.."\124h\124h\124r",IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and YES or NO)end

The Scryers/run local y={683,684,685,686,622,628,705,706,707,708,944,946,947,948,949,985,958,957,959}print"The Scryers:"for i,q in ipairs(y)do q="10"..q print(i,"\124cffffff00\124Hquest:"..q.."\124h\124h\124r",IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and YES or NO)end

Simply copy the script and paste in chat. You'll find a lot of text saying Yes/No for each quest in the chain, chronologically. Find the quest that isn't completed and look that up on Wowhead to proceed.

Akama's Promise

Description

I am not as strong as I once was, <name>. Being so close to evil itself all these years - I do not know if I can trust myself with an artifact as powerful as this.

Take this as my promise to you that when the time comes and you face Illidan, I will be on your side. Take it to the one being we know we can trust with its power. Take the medallion to A'dal in Shattrath City.